The students of the Radical University: Thomas R. Evans

Thomas Robeson Evans (b. December 29, 1857, January 17, 1936)
South Carolina.  White.
Occupation: manufactoring, merchant, farmer.
Father's occupation: farmer.

Thomas R. Evans was born in Spencerville, South Carolina (in Chesterfield county) to Rebecca Ford and Robert E. Evans.  His father Robert was a farmer in Chesterfield County, South Carolina.  Robert enlisted in the Confederate army in April 1861, around the time Fort Sumter was bombarded and served for most of the Civil War.  He was wounded in summer 1864.  By the war's end, he was a captain in the 6th Regiment, South Carolina Cavalry.  The son Thomas was too young to have served in the military.

Thomas registered as a student at the University of South Carolina on October 5, 1874.  He left the university at some point before January 1876 without having completed his degree.

After leaving the university, Thomas returned to Chesterfield County and worked as a merchant in Cheraw.  By 1900, he was working at a sawmill in Society Hill, South Carolina.  He'd returned to Chesterfield County by 1910 and was running a farm.

Thomas continued to work as a farmer in Chesterfield until his death in 1936.  He is buried in the Evans Family Cemetery in Chesterfield.


Source
1). Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of South Carolina.  Publication Number M267.  National Archives Identifier: 586957.  Record Group: 109. State: South Carolina.  Roll 0040.

2). 1860; Census Place: Chesterfield, South Carolina; Page: 174; Family History Library Film: 805217

3). 1870; Census Place: Court House, Chesterfield, South Carolina; Roll: M593_1491; Page: 298A

4). 1880; Census Place: Cheraw, Chesterfield, South Carolina; Roll: 1225; Page: 272D

5). 1900; Census Place: Society Hill, Darlington, South Carolina; Page: 8

6). 1910; Census Place: Court House, Chesterfield, South Carolina; Roll: T624_1455; Page: 21A

7). 1920; Census Place: Court House, Chesterfield, South Carolina; Roll: T625_1690; Page: 31B

8). 1930; Census Place: Court House, Chesterfield, South Carolina; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0018

9). Robeson, S. S., Stroud, C. F., Osborn, K. H. (1916). A Historical and Genealogical Account of Andrew Robeson of Scotland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania and of His Descendants from 1653 to 1916. J. B. Lippincott Company. p. 452.